Github user jodersky commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/9128#issuecomment-148438185
In general I agree with you, however since in this case some warnings (such
as deprecations) are not treated as fatal, the user gets a huge amount of
messages and there is no way to distinguish between fatal warnings and
errors. This then can lead to pretty confusing debugging in case of errors.
E.g. I spent an hour trying to reproduce an error that I thought might be
compiler-related, only to find out it was a perfectly valid warning.
As scala 2.10 does not provide any warning-discrimination out-of-the-box, I
can think of a few possibilities to ease debugging:
First, treat all warnings as fatal: show warnings as such then at the end
display a message such as "[error] warnings are treated as fatal". This
option has the inconvenience of also erroring on deprecation warnings and
is thus not acceptable.
Second, don't show deprecation warnings and continue as in the first
option. This hides important information to the user and in my opinion is
not the way to go either.
Third, display all warnings and treat certain ones as errors (as is done
currently) but also inform the user if it was due to a warning. This option
is what I am suggesting in my PR, the user will get an error message with
an additional warn tag: "[error] [warn] blablabla". If you think a
different tag would be more suitable, such as [fatal warn], we can of
course change the message.
I hope this illustrates my idea behind the PR. Let me know what you think
On Oct 15, 2015 4:32 AM, "Sean Owen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think it's OK, but what does it help? if warnings are to be treated as
> errors, they are errors like others. Does it become confusing to log an
> error that says "warn"?
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